On December 10, Zhou Jianbin, Zhou Wei, Wang Xiaolong and Mo Jiabang, villagers of Taihe Village, Dongjing Yao Township, Guanyang County, Guilin City, received honorary certificates, banners and bonuses from the Guanyang County Cultural Relics Management Office for their initiative to hand over cultural relics from the Warring States Period. .
Four villagers who discovered cultural relics received banners and certificates. Picture/provided by interviewee
Zhou Yuhan, the daughter of Zhou Jianbin, the villager who discovered the cultural relics, told reporters from Jiupai News that on June 10, his father discovered the "treasure" while digging a hole in the orchard and asked his friends to dig together. After her father dug it out, he took a photo of the "treasure" for her. She looked up information on the Internet and found that it looked like a chime bell from the Warring States Period, so she unanimously decided to hand it over and handed the discovered "treasure" to the township government on the same day.
Bronze bell from the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period excavated. Picture/provided by the interviewee
After receiving the news from the township government, the Cultural Relics Management Office of Guanyang County, Guilin City contacted Professor Li Zhen of the Guangxi Cultural Relics Protection and Research Institute to conduct on-site investigation and guidance. After a preliminary inspection of the site, it was determined that it was a tomb or cellar from the Warring States Period. The unearthed object is a bronze Yong bell from the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period.
dig site. Picture/provided by interviewee
Subsequently, the Cultural Relics Management Office of Guanyang County, Guilin City invited a group of 6 cultural relics and archaeologists from the district and city to conduct an exploration of the unearthed site of the bronze Yong bell unearthed from Qingtang Awakening Garden in Taihe Village, and announced After three days and two nights of excavation, a copper axe, one bronze spear and nearly twenty jade ornaments were discovered in the west of the Yongzhong excavated land. It was initially determined that they were artifacts from the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period.
News of the cultural relics unearthed here spread like wildfire, and many outsiders came to "hunt for treasures" with a sense of luck. Zhou Yuhan introduced that during the three days when the archaeological team excavated cultural relics, police officers were on duty at the excavation site. His father was worried and went to the fields to patrol and keep vigil in the middle of the night, fearing that the unfinished things in the fields would be dug up by others. Among them were One afternoon, people from other counties came here to dig secretly, but their family members discovered and drove them away.
She also said that she felt very proud and honored to have discovered such a "treasure" with a history of thousands of years in her orchard. After the excavation, experts determined that there were no other "treasures", she felt more at ease and did not want to return it. There are "treasures" that have been poached by malicious people using unfair means.
Zhou Yuhan said that when he handed over the "treasure", there was a lot of discussion among relatives, friends and villagers. Some people made fun of them and said they were stupid, but his father said to ignore those voices. He said, "You should carry the country's things yourself." If it cannot be protected, it should be handed over to the state."
Zhou Yuhan introduced to Jiupai News that when he was a child, he and his father occasionally dug out some bricks and tiles when working in this land. Later, the land would be planted. fruit trees. The unearthed cultural relics are currently stored at the Guanyang County Cultural Relics Management Office, and their future destination has not yet been determined.
Staff members of Dongjing Yao Township, Guanyang County, Guilin City said that the artifacts from the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods unearthed during this excavation will become valuable research materials for Guanyang County and have important historical value. They are very grateful to these villagers for their support of Guanyang County. Strong support for cultural relics work and contributions to the protection of national cultural relics.
Jiupai News Reporter Song Mingtao
